Fix nscd readlink argument aliasing (bug 22446)
Commit Message
Current GCC mainline detects that nscd calls readlink with the same
buffer for both input and output, which is not valid (those arguments
are both restrict-qualified in POSIX). This patch makes it use a
separate buffer for readlink's input (with a size that is sufficient
to avoid truncation, so there should be no problems with warnings
about possible truncation, though not strictly minimal, but much
smaller than the buffer for output) to avoid this problem.
Tested compilation for aarch64-linux-gnu with build-many-glibcs.py.
2017-12-18 Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
[BZ #22446]
* nscd/connections.c (handle_request) [SO_PEERCRED]: Use separate
buffers for readlink input and output.
Comments
On 12/18/2017 10:44 AM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> Current GCC mainline detects that nscd calls readlink with the same
> buffer for both input and output, which is not valid (those arguments
> are both restrict-qualified in POSIX). This patch makes it use a
> separate buffer for readlink's input (with a size that is sufficient
> to avoid truncation, so there should be no problems with warnings
> about possible truncation, though not strictly minimal, but much
> smaller than the buffer for output) to avoid this problem.
>
> Tested compilation for aarch64-linux-gnu with build-many-glibcs.py.
>
> 2017-12-18 Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
>
> [BZ #22446]
> * nscd/connections.c (handle_request) [SO_PEERCRED]: Use separate
> buffers for readlink input and output.
LGTM.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
> diff --git a/nscd/connections.c b/nscd/connections.c
> index cc1ed72..dab722d 100644
> --- a/nscd/connections.c
> +++ b/nscd/connections.c
> @@ -1077,14 +1077,15 @@ cannot handle old request version %d; current version is %d"),
> if (debug_level > 0)
> {
> #ifdef SO_PEERCRED
> + char pbuf[sizeof ("/proc//exe") + 3 * sizeof (long int)];
> # ifdef PATH_MAX
> char buf[PATH_MAX];
> # else
> char buf[4096];
> # endif
>
> - snprintf (buf, sizeof (buf), "/proc/%ld/exe", (long int) pid);
> - ssize_t n = readlink (buf, buf, sizeof (buf) - 1);
> + snprintf (pbuf, sizeof (pbuf), "/proc/%ld/exe", (long int) pid);
> + ssize_t n = readlink (pbuf, buf, sizeof (buf) - 1);
>
> if (n <= 0)
> dbg_log (_("\
>
@@ -1077,14 +1077,15 @@ cannot handle old request version %d; current version is %d"),
if (debug_level > 0)
{
#ifdef SO_PEERCRED
+ char pbuf[sizeof ("/proc//exe") + 3 * sizeof (long int)];
# ifdef PATH_MAX
char buf[PATH_MAX];
# else
char buf[4096];
# endif
- snprintf (buf, sizeof (buf), "/proc/%ld/exe", (long int) pid);
- ssize_t n = readlink (buf, buf, sizeof (buf) - 1);
+ snprintf (pbuf, sizeof (pbuf), "/proc/%ld/exe", (long int) pid);
+ ssize_t n = readlink (pbuf, buf, sizeof (buf) - 1);
if (n <= 0)
dbg_log (_("\